AT LEAST two senior Gujjar leaders of the ruling BJP have claimed lack of sufficient illustration for the neighborhood within the state ministry, with Vijay Bainsla additionally asking why the Bhajan Lal Sharma authorities had failed to make sure that quota for the neighborhood was included within the Ninth Schedule and therefore put past judicial overview.
The son of the architect of the Gujjar reservation agitation, the late Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla, Vijay Bainsla, instructed The Indian Categorical that there was discontent throughout the neighborhood over the delay on the quota challenge, on condition that “the (BJP) authorities is there at each the Centre and within the state”.
Talking at a Gujjar Karamchari Adhikari Kalyan Parishad assembly not too long ago, which was attended by senior Congress chief Sachin Pilot, Vijay Bainsla raised the lower within the variety of ministers from the neighborhood within the present authorities in comparison with the earlier ones, and mentioned: “Maza nahin aaya (It left a nasty style). It’s true, it’s bitter, however must be mentioned. So, one thing must be performed.”
Bainsla went on to confer with Pilot as “hum sab ke laadle, pyaare (an individual expensive to all of us)”. As supporters raised slogans in favour of Pilot and declared they “are with him”, Bainsla exhorted them to be louder, including: “I too am (with Pilot), you don’t fear.” Requested about Pilot publish the occasion, he mentioned: “We hail from the identical neighborhood and will not be distant from one another.”
Presently, the BJP authorities has only one Gujjar face, Minister of State for Dwelling, Jawahar Singh Bedam. Within the previous Congress authorities, Pilot was the Deputy Chief Minister and Ashok Chandna a Minister of State. Following Pilot’s riot and subsequent removing as Deputy CM and from the ministry, Shakuntala Rawat was made the Cupboard minister.
Earlier than that, within the Vasundhara Raje-led BJP authorities (2013-18), Gujjar chief Hem Singh Bhadana was a Cupboard minister and Kalulal Gurjar the federal government Chief Whip.
Bainsla went on to query why the 5% quota for Most Backward Courses (together with Gujjars and 4 different teams), handed in 2019 underneath the Congress authorities, was but to be included within the Ninth Schedule.
Whereas the earlier Congress authorities had written two letters to the Centre on the problem, it isn’t clear whether or not the Bhajan Lal Sharma authorities has despatched any.
Group leaders have additionally questioned why the promise of withdrawal of instances filed throughout the Gujjar reservation agitations had not been fulfilled, with not a single case taken again because the BJP shaped the federal government in December 2023.
Bainsla instructed The Indian Categorical that neighborhood leaders throughout the state had been telling him the identical, at neighborhood conferences held by him as a part of his ‘Bol Gujjar Mann ki Baat’ initiative. “We go there and don’t say something, however we give microphones to folks to inform us what we’re doing proper or fallacious; what the federal government is doing proper or fallacious; and what they want us or the federal government to alter. All over the place, we hear a single sentence – Ninth Schedule and what’s in it for us,” he mentioned.
Bainsla claimed to have held about 9 such conferences during the last month and a half, from small gatherings of about 500 to these going as much as over a thousand folks.
The Gujjar chief has been nursing a grouse over the BJP denying a ticket to him for the Deoli Uniara bypoll in 2024, claiming no dialogue was held with him. Within the 2023 Meeting polls, Bainsla had misplaced to the Congress’s Harish Meena from Deoli Uniara by simply over 19,000 votes. For the bypoll necessitated by Meena’s election to the Lok Sabha final yr, the celebration dropped Bainsla and fielded former MLA Rajendra Gurjar, who went on to win.
BJP chief Kalulal Gurjar, the state president of the Rajasthan Gurjar Mahasabha, agreed with Bainsla on “the dearth (of illustration)” within the authorities. “There needs to be one other (Gujjar) Cupboard minister and yet one more in firms or boards (as chairperson).”
Whereas additionally agreeing with Bainsla over the necessity to embrace the Gujjar quota within the Ninth Schedule, Kalulal mentioned such points had been higher raised inside celebration fora. “He’s now within the celebration and he ought to increase it on the acceptable stage within the celebration and the federal government,” Kalulal mentioned, including that if Bainsla may procure a ticket, “he also can go and lift the problem in Delhi”.
Requested concerning the points raised by fellow Gujjar leaders, Minister of State, Dwelling, Jawahar Singh Bedam instructed The Indian Categorical that the Bhajan Lal Sharma authorities is “delicate to all of the factors. The problems on which justifiable motion will be taken by the federal government, it’s being performed.”
On the withdrawal of instances in opposition to the protesters coping with violence, arson, harm to public property, and many others, Bedam mentioned “instructions have been issued, experiences have been acquired from some districts whereas they’re awaited from others. A choice will quickly be taken on this. As for the opposite points, they are going to be justifiably addressed at an acceptable time.”
Requested concerning the lack of progress on the inclusion of the quota for MBCs within the Ninth Schedule, Bedam mentioned, “Vijay Bainsla is himself a BJP chief.”
Gujjar chief and Congress MLA Ashok Chandna mentioned he was not stunned on the BJP authorities’s dealing with of the neighborhood’s points. “All OBCs, SCs and STs are dealing with injustice on this authorities. They aren’t getting the illustration they need to have. The federal government isn’t paying consideration … it’ll face the results… They’ve a ‘double engine’ authorities, so they need to now get the quota included within the Ninth Schedule.”
